From and OpEd by Peter King in Newsday:
Earlier this month, I was elected by the House Republican Conference to be chairman of the Homeland Security Committee. I’ve made it clear that I’ll focus the committee on counterterrorism and hold hearings on a wide range of issues, including radicalization of the American Muslim community and homegrown terrorism…
Do read the whole thing as King describes the, well, asinine way we’ve locked ourselves in to political correctness on this issue. King notes his long association with Islamic people and groups, but now he’s denounced as a bigot for merely pointing out the obvious: we’ve got a problem with radical Islam, and until we deal with it, we won’t fix the problem.
The people who are digging in their heels and refusing to face facts are storing up a blood bath for future years – not just in dead Americans who will be killed by Islamists we should have stopped, but of Moslems who will be killed in retaliation…and, indeed, they are storing up the possibility of a complete break down and total war between Islam and the West as a Western population grows ever more outraged by increasing Islamist attacks.
One must always look at things as they are – the Moslem groups in America who downplay the Islamist threats are either blind, or working for the Islamists. We must not be deterred from reality by politically correct name-calling. Lives are at stake here and I applaud Rep. King for showing some genuine leadership on this issue.
Blogs For Victory 